UPSC & State PCS · Daily Edition
Daily Current Affairs 11 August 2026
Welcome to the Ujiyari Daily Current Affairs edition for Tuesday, August 11, 2026, Khudiram Bose Martyrdom Day. Lebanon’s Parliament voted to abolish the death penalty, becoming the first Arab League state to do so, while a Damascus court sentenced Bashar al-Assad and eight others to death in absentia for war crimes and crimes against humanity, the first conviction since his regime fell. On the space front, NASA invited ISRO to join its Moon Base programme under the Artemis Accords even as Skyroot Aerospace signed a three-launch commercial deal with HEX20 building on Vikram-1’s success, and China’s Long March 7A rocket broke up shortly after launch. Domestically, the MSME Ministry and DPIIT signed an MoU to widen market access for GI-tagged products via ONDC and GeM, and Gujarat’s Forest Department launched a JICA-funded plastic waste management project around the Nalsarovar Ramsar wetland. The roundup also covers a new Secretary at the Ministry of Earth Sciences, the Har Ghar Tiranga Yatra’s launch in Puducherry, a heritage fort restoration in Jammu and Kashmir, and India’s four medals at the International Linguistics Olympiad. The full roundup, deep-dive articles, and a practice quiz follow.